The World Health Assembly (WHA) approved the Biden-promoted proposed International Health Regulation amendments (IHR) on Saturday, while negotiations for the World Health Organization’s (WHO) floundering pandemic treaty have been extended into July.
“IHR – tick!” smiled WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as he expressed gratitude for the approval of the amendments. “And the pandemic agreement is not done yet, but I have no doubt it will be.”
Scientist, physician, and vaccine expert Dr. Robert Malone reported Monday the IHR amendments were “illegally” approved “behind closed doors.”
In “close cooperation” with the Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Malone wrote, the WHO has been working on revamping the current IHR agreement, which in the past served as “a voluntary accord” that created “international norms for reporting, managing, and cooperating in matters relating to infectious diseases and infectious disease outbreaks (including ‘pandemics’).”
Malone detailed, however, the turn of events near the end of the WHA’s meeting in Geneva:
In blatant disregard for established protocol and procedures, sweeping IHR amendments were prepared behind closed doors, and then both submitted for consideration and accepted by the World Health Assembly quite literally in the last moments of a meeting which stretched late into Saturday night, the last day of the meeting schedule. Although the “Article 55” rules and regulations for amending the IHR explicitly require that “the text of any proposed amendment shall be communicated to all States Parties by the Director-General at least four months before the Health Assembly at which it is proposed for consideration”, the requirement of four months for review was disregarded in a rush to produce some tangible deliverable from the Assembly. This hasty and illegal action was taken in direct violation of its own charter, once again demonstrating an arbitrary and capricious disregard of established rules and precedent by the WHO under the leadership of the Director-General.
Journalist James Roguski, who has followed the WHO’s treaty and IHR amendments in depth, wrote Saturday that the adoption of the amendments “is an enormous loss for ‘We the People’ and a substantial victory for the evil forces that support the system of pharmakia.”
“The recently adopted amendments will facilitate an enormous global build up of the Pharmaceutical Hospital Emergency Industrial Complex which seeks to trigger ongoing ‘pandemic emergencies’ that will be made even worse by ‘relevant health products,’” Roguski added.
The WHA’s meeting in Geneva last week attempted to bring to a conclusion negotiations on a pandemic treaty that Biden HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said it would be “tragic” for nations to reject.
“I believe we are going to get this done because it would be tragic, especially given how far we’ve come, to not get it done,” Becerra said at the end of May, according to Fox News. “Something is going to broadside us,” he added, apparently referring to an infectious disease.
The top Biden HHS official minimized growing resistance to the treaty from U.S. lawmakers and citizens and those of other nations.
“I don’t think there’s today substantive disagreement about the essential elements – it’s more how they are packaged, how they are defined,” he said.
Rep. Chris Smith, R-NJ, told CatholicVote last month the treaty would grant the WHO vast new powers over the governments of its member nations during “health emergencies.” Smith serves as chairman of the House Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations Subcommittee.
Smith continued:
It is an absolute affront to our sovereignty to hand over critical health authorities to these unelected bureaucrats—with no accountability whatsoever—and empower them to dictate policies to U.S. medical professionals and U.S. taxpayers when it comes to vaccines, therapeutics and the like.
In a piece that appeared sympathetic to the WHO’s stated mission, the treaty would “correct the inequities in access to vaccines and treatments between wealthier nations and poorer ones that became glaringly apparent during the Covid pandemic,” the New York Times last week reported.
Negotiators requested more time due to the sharp disagreements over the wording of the treaty, the Times report noted, but asserted: “Contrary to rhetoric from some politicians in the United States and Britain, [the treaty] would not enable the W.H.O. to dictate national policies on masking, or use armed troops to enforce lockdowns and vaccine mandates.”
Mary Holland, CEO of Children’s Health Defense (CHD), said the lack of consensus on the treaty was due to “civic action.”
“While delegates to the World Health Assembly are still engaged in last-minute negotiations, outside of approved procedures they do not have a consensus to move forward with a legal infrastructure to conduct COVID operations,” she toldThe Defender. “This is great news for the world’s citizens and shows us how powerful we can be when we work together creatively.”
